A "quote" for all occasions..(did I spell that right?)

[MCT]

`Where Society is mighty, always truckle to her rule;
Never send an `i' undotted to the teacher of a school;
Only fight a wrong or falsehood when the crowd is at your back,
And, till Charity repay you, shut the purse, and let her pack;

--Henry Lawson/excerpt from, The Ghost--

[Aava]

The Continuing Adventures of Spaniel O?Spaniel (Part II, at the careers office)

"In his passion, only a passion for life, he would, never hungrily, with deliberation, get the words wrong.

I don?t?, - when he did.
?I will?,   - when he clearly won?t.

The careers officer, a plumping cheerless soul and a superb liar in his own right surveyed the sorry specimen before him. This murky eyed bundle of hair and shabby blue shirt. Mr Egg breathed a sigh of despair.
?So Spaniel, What are your interests or hobbies??
?My hobbies sir? Here: I am quiet and lonesome and full of heavy mercury, industrial melancholy. I have patience without insight, without care for coherence. I make music in my head and wish that I were dead.?

The careers officer, Mr Egg, nodded with false wisdom, discarded the Territorial Army brochures and gazed with intent at the top of Spaniel O?Spaniels head.
?Is there anything you want from life?? (Dangerous question, Mr Egg)
?The answer to that, sir, is that I want death on the stairs.?

Laughter billowed out at a most unusual frequency, shocking the small office.
?When? When do you want death on the stairs??
?When?? came a call back, ?The same time as all the fuckin' others ? when all my domesticated heroes have died, when I have lied to all my loved ones, when I?ve become immune to my own instincts, when I?m so much in debt I smash up telephone boxes and little old people in order to keep up my periodical subscriptions, and Jack McNasty, North-West London?s most blood thirsty black-hearted loan shark runs away form me in pity and fear. When I lie between cold stone walls breathing gaseous fag ash, alone with the dust mites in this piteous vision. When the night is worlds away from the day.?

A pause. Mr Egg, the careers officer twirled his finger round a rubber plant leaf. Spaniel stands in crescendo:

?When I know for a fact the days in the sun were allusions, when I see the tears and tears in my proud fathers coat, when my saviour, my lord, the one who promise me life is drinking in  with his soon to be wife. Then, sure and McFuckerty, its time for death on the stairs.?


-Pete Doherty from Books Of Albion

[makane]

"Fuck you and die!"
-Steven Seagal

[Carlos_f_Rose]

- Self confidence and character...  Antonio Marot

[Aava]

Ask a Stupid Question

"Someone on or above earth, tell me why on earth doe she beg of love at the feet of men who snatch hers from her, selling it on to themselves at a profit that can?t possibly reflect its worth.

This always ungentle robbery is not a plot of lust because she is very conscious of her select few lovers, particularly in relation to her gains, to her own sexual harvest.

The answer, in vague uncertain terms, lies somewhere in the shaded quadrangle shaped area by the lines that do not quite connect the picture of a father, the part of her soul that freezes at the touch of warmth, the tattered feminist, the lamp shade and the bloody gate that she gazes at monthly, that she once made me taste, that stains her desires for progress.

But, desire tarnished; twisted, perverse desire, does not have any implications for the progress itself. And so, progressively, her question became more stupid, forgetting that you don?t like pain, stupid! Stupid then and stupid when, on a terribly, dreadfully sunny day came the most ridiculous, nauseous, frustratingly stupidest question of them all. On the wall high above the graffiti of all the things I could never bring myself to say, she turned away and (thinking, in her stupidity, that it couldn?t see or hear us) asked:

?Will you love me forever??
?Of course not?, I said.""


- Pete Doherty from Books Of Albion

[MCT]

Let it revel; it is nature
Giving to the little dears
Strength of limb, and healthful features,
For the toil of coming years.

--David Bates/excerpt from, Childhood--

[MCT]

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

--Oscar Wilde--

[Drew]

For everything there is a season,
And a time for every matter under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to seek, and a time to lose;
A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
A time to tear, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate,
A time for war, and a time for peace. - Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

[Drew]

"There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief." - Aeschylus

[MCT]

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.

--Francis Quarles--

[Drew]

"Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock." - Mary Parrish

[journey]

"Grasshopper, go out into the world and be like a sun and warm the earth."

 -  Master Po to Quai Chang Cain

[Carlos_f_Rose]

"If love is blind, I guess I ll buy myself a cane..."

 Mr Ego... nah just kidding, you know who it is..

[Drew]

"Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow." - Dorothy Thompson

[Jim]

"You were right, you can't beat the system. But you sure can break it."

- Malcolm, Malcolm in the Middle!

[Drew]

"The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened." - Peter Berger

[journey]

"Everybody's at war with different things...I'm at war with my own heart sometimes".

 - 2Pac, Vibe interview 2/96

[Drew]

"Everybody's at war with different things...I'm at war with my own heart sometimes".

 - 2Pac, Vibe interview 2/96

Cool quote Journey.


"December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, Aprll, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February." - Mark Twain

[MCT]

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

--Kahlil Gibran--

[Carlos_f_Rose]

Las rosas dec?an que eras m?a.... R.c.